In regards to eating meat

[Shemaya]

So I think that is what bothers me most about this particular thread, I find it dis empowering.

I can only imagine that you find it disempowering because you are in conflict. I can tell from your writing that you are a sensitive, loving person. We are all here to discuss. And if you were comfortable in your choices, you would not feel disempowered no matter what anyone said.........no one can disempower you; only you can do that.

I'm not sure I agree with this.
Isn't this the way STS gain their bonus points? By controlling people - usually by disempowering them.
I also am aware of how disempowering my actions were on my partner (all be it totally unintentional) When I was trying to fix/help him, with what we both saw as 'his' problem.
I realised how I was compounding what 'I' thought of as 'his issue'.
I stepped back and I believed in his own power to help himself.... and almost overnight he did.
Our thoughts are powerful. They don't just affect ourselves.

Diana, I am well aware that I am the one who is balancing my own power. I am also acutely aware of the powerful/disempowered duality on the planet. I am comfortable in my choices, but as Ankh said there is always more to do. And as @ndy said, there are those STS entities with agendas that seek to disempower. One of those ways is in creating a guilt- complex, which they effectively did when the teachings of Jesus were corrupted and made into a religion. That is what I am finding uncomfortable in the thread, the implication that guilt is a good motivation for our actions and choices. To me that is a disempowered way of choosing.

Unlike what Monica said, I do feel responsible for the suffering in third world countries, for the billion of starving and dying children on the planet...there is so much more I can do to stop supporting agenda's that creates the disempowerment we see all around the world, I'm am doing the best I can in my life , but there is always more to do.

As for your environment, this is where I completely depart from your stance. Why on earth would this stop you, because others don't support it?

It doesn't stop me

You just eat the plant food and not the meat from a meal. Let me add that the meal, should, in the first place, be healthy for all; so there should be enough food choices for you. You can supplement with green drinks and superfoods.

I do that at times, at other times I don't.

I get the impression that shemaya values the needs of her family and eating with them over her own desire to change her diet.


I'm also thinking about the love and intention that goes into preparing a meal for people you love. Food made to share, prepared with love and care has got to carry that energy with it.

Thanks for understanding @ndy

I believe there is value in sharing meals with my family at this juncture and not setting myself apart from them. Will it always be this way? I don't know, things could change.

I've already shared that I have health considerations. I started a gluten free diet for those reasons and am learning about that now. Actually there is much that I am learning right now (about many things), so I have to prioritize my time. I am now and have always strived towards a more sattvic diet.

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With that being said, it doesn't mean that we should stop caring, or not doing anything. But stopping for a second, and just appreciating the moment, and appreciating ourselves exactly as we are and all the efforts and the service we are already doing - that's empowering, imho. And sharing that with other people, by building them up, is what raises the vibrations of the whole planet, right? And I never heard about guilt and doubts doing that to a person, but that love and respect does. And gratitude, and appreciation is what washes our souls, so that we can believe ourselves being that love and that light again, each equally admired and adored by the Creator no matter what.

Thank you Ankh, it's feels good to be understood, we are each perfect in our own way, I agree.

I agree, building others up, gratitude and appreciation, encouraging each other to believe in ourselves, this will raise the vibe and move us from the yellow ray to the heart.